1965 World Series - Game 7

Game 7 of the 1965 World Series featuring the Los Angeles Dodgers facing the Minnesota Twins.  This game is in Minneapolis at the old Metropolitan Stadium.  NBC would carry all 7 games with the announce team of Twins announcer Ray Scott and and Dodgers legendary announcer (who just signed up to be in the booth for the Dodgers for a 65th season in 2014) Vin Scully.

This final game of the 1965 series would be the only game that the visiting team would win and it was the 3rd time the Twins were shut out in the 7 games.
This was the last time the Twins would be in the World Series before 1987 and this was only the second World Series in which both teams were west of the Mississippi river, the previous was 1944 when the St.Louis Browns faced off against the St. Louis Cardinals.

Happy 65th Birthday Robert Plant

Happy Birthday to Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant. 
 He turns 65 today, August 20th.

A special interview broadcast on "The Midnight Special" during the the 

Led Zeppelin 1975 North American  Tour.

Robert Plant's highest charting single with Led Zeppelin

"Whole Lotta Love" 
#4 in 1969

Robert Plant's highest charting single as a solo act:

"Sea of Love" 

(as The Honeydrippers)  

#3 in 1984

10 Crazy Facts About Japan

Today in Baseball History August 15th

Billboard Top 20 Digital Songs (08/17/2013)

Billboard Digital Songs

Top 20

Week Ending August 17th 2013

New York Times Bestseller - NonFiction 08/11/2013

NY Times Bestseller List

NonFiction

Week Ending August 11th 2013

10 - The Duck Commander Family - Willie and Korie Robertson
(17 weeks on list)

9  -  Shirley Jones - Shirley Jones
(Debut)
A candid autobiography by the singer and actress who starred in the 1950s film versions of "Oklahoma" and
"Carousel" and in "The Partridge Family" in the 1970s.

8  -  Dad is Fat - Jim Gaffigan
(12 weeks on list)

7  -  Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls - David Sedaris
(14 weeks on list)

6  -  Unbroken - Laura Hillenbrand
(139 weeks on list)

5  -  Breakpoint - Jeff Stibel
(Debut)
A neuroscientist and entrepreneur shows how the brain can act as a guide to understanding the future of the 
internet and the constellation of business and technologies that run on it.

4 -  Happy, Happy, Happy - Phil Robertson with Mark Schlabach
(12 weeks on list)

3  -  This Town - Mark Leibovich
(2 weeks on list)

2  -  Lean In - Sheryl Sandberg with Nell Scovell
(20 weeks on list) (last weeks #1)

1  -  Zealot - Reza Aslan 
(2nd week on list) (first week at #1)
A "biography" of Jesus Christ presents him in the context of his times as the leader of a revolutionary movement.

New York Times Bestseller - Fiction 08/11/2013

NY Times Bestseller List

Fiction

Week Ending August 11th 2013

10 - The White Princess - Philippa Gregory
(Debut)
Elizabeth of York's marriage to Henry Tudor unites the warring houses, but divides the princess' loyalties.

9  -  Hidden Order - Brad Thor
(3 weeks on list)

8  -  First Sight - Danielle Steel
(2 weeks on list)

7  -  The Ocean at the End of the Lane - Neil Gaiman
(6 weeks on list)

6  -  Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
(60 weeks on list)

5  -  Light of the World - James Lee Burke
(Debut)
A savage killer follows the detective Dave Robicheaux and his family to a Montana ranch.

4  -  And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
(10 weeks on list)

3  -  The English Girl - Daniel Silva
(2 weeks on list) (Last week's #1)

2  -  Inferno - Dan Brown
(11 weeks on list)

1  -  The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith
(2 weeks on list) (1st week at #1)
The struggling detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide.  J.K. Rowling writing pseudonymously.

Aug 9 - This Day In Baseball

something new, This Day In Baseball, for August 6th...it says Aug 9 but its for the 6th

Ripley's Believe It or Not

Here is your Ripley's Believe It or Not for Sunday August 4th

Gunsmoke on the Radio

From the Golden Age of Radio another classic episode of the original Gunsmoke.

Starring William Conrad as Marshall Matt Dillon

with Parley Baer as Chester Proudfoot, Howard McNear as Doc and Georgia Ellis as Miss Kitty

Season 1

Episode 65

Boy

written by Norman McDonnell

Originally aired August 1st 1953

thanks Buck Benny and his great OTR pocast

1982 World Series (Game 7)

1982 World Series

Game 7

October 20th 1982

Busch Stadium

St. Louis,  MO

Milwaukee Brewers

vs

St. Louis Cardinals

Series tied at 3 games each

NY Times Bestseller List - Fiction 08/04/2013

New York Times Bestseller List

Fiction

Week Ending August 4th 2013

10 - Bombshell - Catherine Coulter
(2 weeks on list)
The F.B.I. special agent Griffin Hammersmith accepts Dillon Savich's invitation to join him and Lacey Sherlock.

9  -  Second Honeymoon - James Patterson and Howard Roughan
(4 weeks on list)

8  -  Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn
(59 weeks on list)

7  -  The Ocean At The End of The Lane - Neil Gaiman
(5 weeks on list)

6  -  Hidden Order - Brad Thor
(2 weeks on list)
The counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath uncovers a plot with roots in the 18th century.

5  -  And the Mountains Echoed - Khaled Hosseini
(9 weeks on list)

4  -  First Sight - Danielle Steel
(Debut)
A talented American designer whose troubled past has soured her on relationships falls in love with a French doctor.

3 -  The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith
(Debut)
The struggling detective Cormoran Strike investigates a supermodel's suicide; J.K. Rowling,writing pseudonymously.

2  -  Inferno - Dan Brown
(10 weeks on list) (last week's #1)

1  -  The English Girl - Daniel Silva
(DEBUT)
Gabriel Allon, an art restorer and occasional spy for the Israeli secret service steps in to help the British prime minister, whose lover has been kidnapped.